Ron Smith Vs Taboos

We humans have a tendency to believe that the future will be very much like the recent past. But, of course, it wonÆt. Sudden huge shifts come unbidden, unanticipated except by a very few whose warnings are ignored.

Pat Buchanan comes to mind. His newspaper columns and his political speeches when running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 have long sounded the alarm about such things as the cultural warfare playing out here and in Europe. Islam is again invading the West, this time not with armies but with waves of immigration.

There was a time when he believed America would rally to ôreclaim our culture,ö but he now seems reconciled to acknowledging that, as Irving Kristol, the father of neo-conservatism (and of Bill Kristol) maintained, the culture war is over and ôwe lost.ö

The late Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist, author and political interviewer, had wide experience as a war correspondent and interviewed virtually everyone of note in the course of her career.

In 1972, she got Henry Kissinger to agree with her that the Vietnam War was ôa useless war.ö He later wrote that his interview with her was ôthe single most disastrous interview I ever had with any member of the press.ö She said the ôsons of Allah breed like rats.ö She coined the term Eurabia to describe what Europe has become.

After 9/11, she wrote three books that excoriated Islamic extremists and Islam in general. They were best-sellers, but so against the egalitarian tenor of our times that she was cast into disrepute by the guardians of correct thought.

The question now is whether she was right, and the evidence is on her side.

Consider that then-Algerian President Boumedienne told the UN General Assembly in 1974: ôOne day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.ö

Yasser Arafat said much the same. And now the besieged Colonel Qadaffi is warning that the attack on him will cause a further increase in the number of African immigrants pouring into Europe.

In a sense, then, it seems quite possible that the future will be much like the distant past, the times during which Islam ruled Spain for eight hundred years before being defeated and expelled.

In 1529, the mighty army of Suleiman the Great was repelled at the Gates of Vienna, marking the height of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe. 125 years of warfare finally pushed the Turks out of Europe.

In our time, there is no mighty army, just the relentless movement of Muslims into the lands they coveted so long ago. They are inassimilable, a coherent group fueled by a living religion and intent on imposing their Sharia law on the infidels.

The problem with illegal immigration in the United States is a lesser threat, no doubt, than it is in Europe, since the Mexicans are Christian, but it is billed as a Reconquista, a word originally used to describe the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Spanish from the Moors.

California is being overrun with Mexicans and other Latinos. Demographics is destiny, and the destiny of California is to be dominated by a majority Latino population. Texas is next.

Mexican officials arenÆt shy about their take on the future of what they call ôAztlan.ö They view the Southwest United States as territory lost to them in the 1846 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexican schoolchildren are taught that this territory was stolen from them by the Norte Americanos.

Mexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo put it bluntly:, ôCalifornia is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.ö People who don't like such demographic changes ôshould go back to Europe.ö

Pat BuchananÆs columns are no longer carried by any major American newspaper. His books, however, are best-sellers, despite being ignored by establishment reviewers.